 For whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just and good, must suppose that there is independently such a thing as justice and injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which he pronounces that God...  The History of Civilisation in Scotland - Page 460by John Mackintosh - 1895 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1727 - 454 pages
...and Fal/hood, Right and Wrong \ : Book \.Wrong ; according to which he pronounces that Cod is juji, righteous, and true. If the mere Will, ^Decree, or Law of God be faid abfolutely to conftitute Right and Wrong, then are thefe latter words of no fignificancy at all.... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1732 - 450 pages
...Faljhood, Right and Wrong ; 50 An INQUIRY Book \.Wrong ; according to which he pronounces fhat God is jujt, righteous, and true. If the mere Will, Decree, or Law of God be faid abfolutely to conftitute Right and Wrong, then are thefe latter words of no fignificancy at all.... | |
 | Elisha Smith - 1737 - 492 pages
...Injuftice, Truth and Fal/hoocL, Right and Wrong ', according to which he pronounces " God is juft, righteous, and true. If the mere '' Will, Decree or Law of God, is faid abfo" lutely to conftitute Right and Wrong, then " are thefe latter Words of no Signification... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pages
...not only as just and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of imitation. For whoever thinks there is a god, and pretends formally to believe that he is just...said absolutely to constitute right and wrong, then all these latter words are of no significancy at all. For thus if each part of a contradiction were... | |
 | 1829 - 624 pages
...not only as just and lawful, but as divine, and worthy of imitation. For whoever thinks there is a god, and pretends formally to believe that he is just...falsehood, right and wrong; according to which he pronounces"that God is just, righteous, and true. If the mere will, decree, or law of God be said absolutely... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...speak of the goodness or of the justice of God. " Whoever thinks," says Shaftesbury, " that there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just...and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which eternal and immutable standards he pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true. If the mere will,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which eternal and immutable standards he pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true....right and wrong, then are these latter words of no signification at all." * In justice, indeed, to one of the writers above mentioned (Dr. Paley) it is... | |
 | Joseph Gilbert - 1836 - 492 pages
...applicable to this subject. " For whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he in just and good, must suppose that there is independently...right and wrong, then are these latter words of no significancy at all. For thus, if each part of a contradiction were affirmed for truth by the Supreme... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 414 pages
...there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just and good, must suppose, that there is such a thing as justice and injustice, truth and falsehood,...pronounces that God is just, righteous, and true." This is afterwards supported by a facility of speech, which is never offensive, with that refinement... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 410 pages
...deficiency in religion, but from its abuse every thing. He says expressly, " Whoever thinks there is a God, and pretends formally to believe that he is just and good, must suppose, that there is such a thing as justice and injustice, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, according to which he... | |
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